I haven't confirmed a relationship to any of them, but they all seem to match pretty closely and list mdkas in Abner's pedigree. The Washburn Project doesn't list an email contact for its administrator, so I guess I'll have to contact FTDNA.

Or maybe I'll fill out a join request and explain that I don't want to join, I just want some info.

I haven't confirmed a relationship to any of them, but they all seem to match pretty closely and list mdkas in Abner's pedigree. The Washburn Project doesn't list an email contact for its administrator, so I guess I'll have to contact FTDNA.

Or maybe I'll fill out a join request and explain that I don't want to join, I just want some info.

I filled out a join request, but it didn't ask for any info. So, I then turned around and quit the project, which involved a request for the reason why. I used that to make a plea to the admin of the project to contact me.

I haven't confirmed a relationship to any of them, but they all seem to match pretty closely and list mdkas in Abner's pedigree. The Washburn Project doesn't list an email contact for its administrator, so I guess I'll have to contact FTDNA.

Or maybe I'll fill out a join request and explain that I don't want to join, I just want some info.

I filled out a join request, but it didn't ask for any info. So, I then turned around and quit the project, which involved a request for the reason why. I used that to make a plea to the admin of the project to contact me.

Hopefully, it will work.

Well, that method has not worked so far, so I guess I will have to contact FTDNA to get in touch with the administrator of the Washburn Project.

I think project admins should be required to provide some means to contact them via the project's public web site. I field questions from people all the time about the projects I administer. That is part of being a project admin.

I got a confirmation on my Washburn line from the admin of the Washburn DNA Project. It is that same I1 line with DYS19=15. That confirms that my third great grandfather Abner Standish Washburn was indeed I1.

I got a confirmation on my Washburn line from the admin of the Washburn DNA Project. It is that same I1 line with DYS19=15. That confirms that my third great grandfather Abner Standish Washburn was indeed I1.

He confirmed it by means of the book, The Washburn Family in America, by Brenton P. Washburne, which contains the related pedigrees of the I1 members of the Washburn DNA Project and my third great grandfather Abner Standish Washburn. He and my great great grandmother Olive (his daughter) are listed in that book (but he didn't give me the page number).

Here is the email (I guess it doesn't hurt to share it).

Quote from: Mark Washburne

Hi Richard,

I was able to find your line in Brenton Washburne's book, The Washburn Family in America. Here is your line starting with John Washburn, who came to America in 1631:

BTW, apparently Mark and I are 9th cousins, since our most recent common ancestor is John Washburn (1620-1686), who is an 8th great grandfather to both of us.

It amazes me how some families, like the Washburns, have maintained such excellent genealogical records, while so many others have not. The Washburns were New England Puritans, however, and those folks seem to have been pretty meticulous about things like recording births and deaths in family Bibles and passing them on.